Phatima Mamardashvili

Resident Faculty

Phatima Mamardashvili is an assistant professor at ISET and also serves as the Head of the Agricultural Policy Research Center (APRC) at the ISET Policy Institute (ISET PI). Her research and teaching interests include Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, and Econometrics.

Phatima received her Dr.Sc. degree from ETH Zurich for the dissertation entitled “Measuring economic and environmental performance of Swiss dairy farms using stochastic frontier analysis” (2013). She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the Georgian State Agricultural University (2005) and her M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Sciences with a major in Food and Resource Economics from ETH Zurich (2009). She also received the Advanced Studies Diploma in Applied Statistics from the Department of Mathematics of ETH Zurich (2013).

Before joining ISET in July 2014, Phatima was a postdoctoral researcher at the Agricultural Economics Group at ETH Zurich. Prior to starting her doctoral studies, she also worked at the Swiss Center for Agricultural Extension and Rural Development (AGRIDEA).